USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Another name for a scramble auction is “Grab and go” slave auctions. Slave ship captains would go to great lengths to prepare their captives and set prices for these auctions to make sure they would receive the highest amount of profits possible because it usually did not involve earlier negotiations or bidding.

Detailed explanation-2: -There were three types of auctions: Grab and go, May the highest bidder win, and the scramble.

Detailed explanation-3: -It was the largest sale of slaves on record in the United States, and it was referred to as “The Weeping Time.” The 436 men, women, children, and infants, all of whom had been born on his plantations, were brought to a racetrack in Savannah, Georgia, and put in the stalls used for horses.

Detailed explanation-4: -As far as I have been able to find out, the highest price paid for someone born in slavery was for Daphnis, learned in the arts of the grammarian; the seller was Atius of Pisaurum and Marcus Scaurus the leading citizen bid 700, 000 sesterces. Scaurus was a leading orator who was very active in the law courts.